Comment 160 for bug 191889

(In reply to comment #26)
> While I (and mconnor, trust me) do understand the pain that this causes a
> subset of the Linux using audience, I want to stress that Firefox is doing what
> the operating system tells us: in this case, the operating system reports that
> there is no network connection, and we obey. It is indeed unfortunate that the
> operating system is misinforming us, and I'd be happy to do what I can as
> interim fixes as long as it's not in ways that remove a useful feature
> (automatic online/offline detection) for the vast majority of our users.

Just to point out, it's not the operating system reporting that, it's NetworkManager...